A PROBLEM

Over 2,000 years ago a Greek slave named Aesop kept telling King Croesus a lot of fables that won him freedom and fame. History doesn't say so but, just between us drunks, this Aesop was one of us! What do you think he was a slave to? What do you think that name means, anyway? Aesop! He dipped his classic Grecian beak into too much Hellenic homebrew--and the name was A Sop! And another thing! As a teller of tall tales, the guy was a piker! Down through the centuries he's been topped a million times by modern A Sops!